Posted Article 2007:

Conflicts in the World

This Month: The Conflict between Palestinian and Israeli

The Palestinian and Israel conflict is still going on, but a lot of world people don't know the real reassons. I will try to explain it to you. I have put a Barnes & Noble Link in top of this page in case you might being intrested in this topic, so you can by your favorite book overthere.

Why War?

In wars we have always two sides or more. Each side believes they are right. In the Palestinian and Israeli conflict we see both sides claim the same land. Called either Palestine or Israel. For religious reassons, because both Israeli and Palestinian religions say, that the land they claim is given by their God.

Anger in their Heart

The differents in religion is very important to understand this conflict. Also the conflict has already a long history. The war is started over 60 years ago. Israeli's and Palestinian don't know better because they grew up with it. There is anger in their heart.

a Little more then 2000 years ago (Jesus Time) the Romans came to the area of the Jews. They divided the land in districts. The Romans destroyed many of the city Jerusalem and killed a large number of Jews. The Romans forced many others to leave their homeland. Many Jews never came back to their home country, until after the second world war.

Jewis people went back to their country, but in the mean time it was occupied by arabic speaking moslims. The Jews were calling themselve Israelis and the arabic called themselve Palestinians. The Israeli's were a minority in the country which they claim it's their own.

In the 1930s the Great Arab Revolt took place against the British. the British ruled Palestine after 1918. The Arab Revolt was directed at both the British and the growing Jewish population. The numbers of Jews had risen to a point that alarmed many Palestinian Arab leaders. The British put down the revolt with the help of Jewish militias, but the fighting and hostility never really ended between the Jews and Arabs. From that point on, both the Jews and the Palestinians formed militias and other military units to fight each other and to prepare for the day when the British would leave.

In 1948, the British did leave, and the Jews in Palestine declared the independence of the new State of Israel. The Palestinian diaspora began, as hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled the new nation of Israel and moved to neighboring Arab nations to live as refugees, awaiting the day when they could return to their homeland.

Two significant parts

Two significant parts of the old Palestine did not become part of the new Israel; the a small, crowded coastal area around the city of Gaza, which came to becalled the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The West Bank is a section of the old Palestine on the west side, or bank, of the Jordan River. The Arab nation of Jordan sits on the east side, or bank, of that river. After the war ended in 1949, Egypt took over the Gaza Strip, while Jordan took control of the West Bank.

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